Correlative definition

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Having or involving a mutual relationship; reciprocally dependent.

Correlative rights and duties.

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(grammar) Indicating a reciprocal or complementary relationship.

A correlative conjunction.

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(grammar) A correlative word or expression.
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Related; corresponding.
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Either of two correlative entities; a correlate.
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(gram.) Expressing mutual relation and used in pairs.

In “Neither Tom nor I can go,” “neither” and “nor” are correlative conjunctions.

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A correlative word.
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Either of two correlative things.
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(grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu ‘who’ (which person?), iu ‘someone’ (some person), tie ‘there’ (that place), ĉie ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc.
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A thing closely related to something else.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
correlative
Plural:
correlatives

Correlative Sentence Examples

  • Unlike The Peeler, another feminist work made by a man, Women's Work lacked a masculine correlative.

  • Accordingly, when he denies the reality of Being, and declares Becoming, or eternal flux and change, to be the sole actuality, Heraclitus must be understood to enunciate not only the unreality of the abstract notion of being, except as the correlative of that of not-being, but also the physical doctrine that all phenomena are in a state of continuous transition from non-existence to existence, and vice versa, without either distinguishing these propositions or qualifying them by any reference to the relation of thought to experience.

  • But if these three correlative facts are immediately given, it seems to be thought possible by Cousin to vindicate them in reflective consciousness.

  • Doubt is a necessary correlative to faith, the other side of the same coin.

  • Although both mind and the sensory faculty receive their correlative forms when perceiving or thinking, neither is wholly passive in its defining activity.

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